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Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
Heat Illnesses and ... exercise in the heat ... No significant CNS ... CNS dysfunction ... temp > 104 F - CNS
Symptoms of Hypophosphatemia
 • CNS: Seizures, Delirium, Paresthesias, Central & extrapontine myelinolysis, Hallucinations, Fatigue
 • Hematologic:
Hypophosphatemia • CNS ... , Arrhythmias, Heart
Hyponatremia - Differential Diagnosis by Mechanism
Decr Blood Pressure (“Decr Effective Circulating Volume”) 
 - Volume depletion
depletion - Heart ... the lung) - CNS
Causes of Hyperpyrexia (Temp > 106.7° F) - Differential Diagnosis
 • Heat Stroke
 • Drug-induced: Amphetamines,
Diagnosis • Heat ... Thyrotoxicosis • CNS
Directed Workup in Suspected Cardiac Transplant Infection
 • No identifiable source
 • Cardiac
 • Pulmonary
 •
nervous system (CNS ... Cardiac #Transplant #Heart
Fever - Pyrogen Pathophysiology

EXOGENOUS PYROGEN
 • Bacteria: Lipopolysaccharide components, peptidoglycans and muramyl peptide derivatives, Toxins
 •
circumventricular organs CNS ... set point → Heat ... conservation, Heat
Oropharyngeal and Esophageal Causes of Dysphagia - Differential Diagnosis
Oropharyngeal Dysphagia
 • Neuromuscular causes: CVA/CNS tumor/ALS, Parkinson's,
Neuromuscular causes: CVA/CNS ... enlarged aorta/heart
Hypothalamus Anatomy and Hypothalamic Nuclei
 • Anterior hypothalamic nucleus - Body temperature, thermal regulation (heat dissipation),
thermal regulation (heat ... parasympathetic ns ... the sympathetic CNS
Burch-Wartofsky Point Scale for Diagnosis of Thyroid Storm
 • Thermoregulatory Dysfunction
    - Temperature
- Congestive Heart ... Dysfunction (0-20) • CNS
Modified dengue severity classification, PAHO/WHO
Dengue without warning signs - DNWS:
 • Person who lives or has
nervous system [CNS ... ALT > 1000 IU), CNS ... mental state), heart